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The Sonnet, Three Journals, and Four Graces [by Anna Maria Hong]
For my final post, I’d like to talk briefly about my favorite poetic form, the sonnet, which I played around with for eight years, and which I continue to love for its rigor and…
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Sci-Fi First and Last Lines: A Writing Experiment [by Anna Maria Hong]
“Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I…
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Instead of Program Notes [by Lera Auerbach]
On November 24, 2015, I will premiere my new concerto for piano and orchestra with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and Dan Ettinger conducting. Each work is a being with its own life, surprises, mysteries and destiny. This…
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Poems by People I Like [by Anna Maria Hong]
Today I’d like to feature writing by nine contemporary American poets whom I like. I’ve known most of them for a while, although I’ve made the acquaintance of some recently through their work. I…
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Rhapsody in Despair and Wonder, and notes on my return – Jennifer Michael Hecht
Dear Bleaders, Much have I traveled in the realms of gold. Also spent a lot of time in realms of muck, and the town of what the. But I’m back here in my page…
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Surrealist Comforts [by Anna Maria Hong]
Over the last few days, I have been thinking about poetry as a source of consolation in the face of devastating circumstances, thinking again of our friends, loved ones, and fellow poets in France—and…
